"Think of a caged rat, a cornered rat. What does a cornered rat do? It instinctively goes for the jugular. That's where the media are going right now," following the November 2 elections, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Ernest Istook in a radio interview.

Bozell also addressed MSNBC's brief suspension of Keith Olbermann for his donations to political candidates:

ERNEST ISTOOK: Keith Olbermann makes a donation and MSNBC gets upset with that. But all his comments--

BRENT BOZELL: They suspended him for a whole weekend.

ISTOOK: Yeah, with pay. All of his comments though amount to constant donations to left-leaning candidates.

BOZELL: Of course they are. But there's not a problem with making a donation if you're a commentator. If you're Sean Hannity or if he [Olbermann] were just a commentator. But he also, and Chris Matthews, they become election night anchors for that disgrace of a network. You can't be doing that.